Accession number
PML 145850.92
Published
[London : s.n., 1641]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Frontispiece plate from an edition of John Foxe's Acts and Monuments Of matters most speciall and memorable, happening in the Church, with an universall History of the same (London : for the Company of Stationers, 1641).
Mounted as item 92 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Frontispiece plate from an edition of John Foxe's Acts and Monuments Of matters most speciall and memorable, happening in the Church, with an universall History of the same (London : for the Company of Stationers, 1641).
Mounted as item 92 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 255 x 301 mm; plate mark: 263 x 318 mm; sheet: 279 x 340 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print with six compartments arranged in two rows, the top containing two panels showing "Great Babylon" (left) and New Jerusalem (right); below are a series of panels under a caption title reading, "The battell of Armageddon" showing the progress of the Battle of Armageddon and defeat of the forces of Satan, with caption text from Revelations.
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